Interesting stat!!!!!!!!!

Jay1982 · Guru

Interesting stat!!!!!!!!!

nietche · Veteran Member

Not sure that having a lot of players high up on this list is a really good thing. What it does suggest is that the habs often play without the puck ... either by losing faceoffs or losing out on loose pucks...

I'd rather have the habs control the puck more, and not have to "take away" so much

barry33 · Guru

nietche wrote:

Not sure that having a lot of players high up on this list is a really good thing. What it does suggest is that the habs often play without the puck ... either by losing faceoffs or losing out on loose pucks...

I'd rather have the habs control the puck more, and not have to "take away" so much

I agree Nietche..that stat can be either a "glass half full or half empty" type thing. Nonetheless glad to see we have players at the top of the league at something.

Habtastic · Guru

I also heard we led the giveaway stats, as well. But yes, it is good we know how to take it away, too!

Habtastic

Jay1982 · Guru

no the only have on the top twenty list og giveaways is Souray with 85 at the number 15th spot, with people like ovechkin (88), thornton (102), pronger (110), Zubov (103), Spezza (93) Kovalchuk (127) and a few other guys way ahead in giveaways.

As for Barry and nietche's comments....I dunno how this stat can be a bad thing. No team can control the puck 100% of the time, it does not mean that we don't have the puck very often, what it does mean is that we are a very good team to take the puck away from the opposition, and if anything we have the puck very often!! They ONLY problem I would see with this stat is that we cannot convert these take aways into more goals. But definately not a stat that says we are not in control of the puck the majority of the time.